RAINBOW, THE(ISBN=9780375759659)

　　Pronounced obscene when it was first published in 1915, " The Rainbow" is the epic story of three generations of the Brangwens, a Midlands family. A visionary novel, considered to be one of Lawrence's finest, it explores the complex sexual and psychological relationships between men and women in an increasingly industrialized world. "Lives are separate, but life is continuous--it continues in the fresh start by the separate life in each generation," wrote F. R. Leavis. "No work, I think, has presented this perception as an imaginatively realized truth more compellingly than "The Rainbow.""

　　Keith Cushman is the author of D. H. Lawrence at Work. The books he has edited or coedited include The Letters of D. H. Lawrence and Amy Lowell 1914–1925 and Lawrence's Memoir of Maurice Magnus as well as two collections of essays, The Challenge of D. H. Lawrence and D. H. Lawrence's Literary Inheritors. He is a professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
INTRODUCTION By Keith Cushman
THE RAINBOW (1915)
CHAPTER I. HOW TOM BRANGWEN
MARRIED A POLISH LADY
CHAPTER I1. THEY LIVE AT THE MARSH
CHAPTER III. CHILDHOOD OF ANNA LENSKY
CHAPTER IV. GIRLHOOD OF ANNA BRANGWEN
CHAPTER V. WEDDING AT THE MARSH
CHAPTER VI. ANNA VICTRIX
CHAPTER VII. THE CATHEDRAL
CHAPTER VIII. THE CHILD
CHAPTER IX. THE MARSH AND THE FLOOD
CHAPTER X. THE WIDENING CIRCLE
CHAPTER XI. FIRST LOVE
CHAPTER XII. SHAME
CHAPTER XtlI. THE MAN'S WORLD
CHAPTER XIV. THE WIDENING CIRCLE
CHAPTER XV. THE BITTERNESS OF ECSTASY
CHAPTER XVI. THE RAINBOW
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